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bridge. In Frankfurtstraße stands a Baroque palace built in 1678–
the Heiliggrabkapelle (Chapel 86. It features a magnificent
of the Holy Sepulchre), dating Festsaal (ballroom) and
from 1505. Spiegelkabinett (hall of mirrors).
The only part of the former
0 Limburg complex remaining today is
the 14th-century Weißer Turm
Road map B5. * 31,000. £ (white tower). Following the
n Bahnhofsplatz 2 (06431-61 66). annexation of Hesse-Homburg
by Prussia in 1866, the palace
Limburg’s history dates back became the favourite summer
to the 8th century. In 1821, residence of the royal then
the town became the see (from 1871) imperial family.
of a newly created diocese. Along with Baden-Baden and
The Dom (collegiate cathedral Wiesbaden, Homburg was one
church of St George) towers of Germany’s most fashionable
high above the Lahn river. Romanesque–Gothic wall paintings in the spas, and today the town reflects
This monumental building, Dom in Limburg its former splendour. The Kurpark,
whose style combines late- a landscaped park established
Romanesque and early French- the 13th century. Near the in 1854–67, was designed by
Gothic, was erected in 1190– 14th-century Alte Lahnbrücke Peter Joseph Lenné.
1250. Its well-proportioned (old Lahn bridge), with its The Spielbank (1838), in
interior contains a rich variety of defensive towers, stands a Brunnenallee claims to be the
historic artifacts, including some mansion belonging to the oldest casino in the world. Built
13th-century wall paintings in Cistercians of Eberbach. The in 1887–90, the Kaiser-Wilhelm-
the presbytery and the transept, post-Franciscan Sebastiankirche Bad is still used as the main
a font dating from the same (church of St Sebastian) dates bath complex for therapeutic
period and the tombstone of from the 14th and 18th centuries. treatments. An Orthodox
Konrad Kurzbold, who founded chapel, designed by Leonti
the first church on this site. Nikolayevich Benois for the
To the south of the Dom q Bad Homburg Russian Orthodox nobility,
stands the Burg (castle), an Road map C5. * 52,000. £ was finished in 1899.
irregular structure built in the n Kurhaus, Louisenstraße 58 (06172-
13th–16th centuries. It houses 178 37 10). _ Fugato Organ Festival Environs
the interesting Diözesan- (Sep every two years – next in, 2018), Saalburg, 7 km (4 miles) to
museum (Diocese museum). Laternenfest (Sep yearly). the northwest, has a Roman
Limburg has many original fortress, which was completely
examples of beautiful half- Bad Homburg grew up around reconstructed in 1898–1901.
timbered buildings. The houses a fortress whose earliest records The fortress formed part of the
at No. 1 Römerstraße, No. 6 date back to 1180. Friedrich II limes, the fortified border that
Kolpingstraße, No. 4 Kleine von Hessen-Homburg initiated separated the Roman Empire
Rütsche and No. 11 Kornmarkt the con version of the medieval from its Germanic neighbours
date from the last decade of castle into the Schloß, in the 1st to 3rd century AD.

The grand edifice of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Bad in the Kurpark, Bad Homburg

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